Elements of Art
What the artwork feels like (if it's 3d) or looks like it would feel like (if it's 2d).
What is Texture?
A painting style in which the picture is comprised of small, unmixed dots.
What is Pointillism?
A drawing style in which the picture is comprised of lines and dots made of small marks.
What is Cross Hatch?
The type of art/materials used by an artist (ex: paint, charcoal, pencil, clay, etc.)
What is Medium?
The shortest month of the year.
What is February?
The path created when a dot moves from one point to another.
What is Line?
Born in Iowa, this painter focused on small towns and farm life.
Who is Grant Wood?
A burned and compressed willow branch, broken up into smaller sticks that artists draw with.
What is Charcoal?
A rough or unfinished drawing or painting, often made to assist in making a more finished picture.
What is a Draft or Sketch?
The amount of feet in a mile.
What is 5,280?
How light or dark a color is by adding white or black.
What is Value?
This is the amount of time it took Georges Seurat to paint his most famous piece (hint, it was as large as the classroom wall).
What is 2 Years?
Creating a final piece with more than one material.
What is Mixed Media?
When you want to draw things that seem to go far back in the distance, what technique should you use?
What is Perspective?
Name an animal that sleeps standing up.
What is a horse/cow/elephant?
Another word for "saturation," this is what the eye sees when light reflects off of an object.
What is Color?
This is the name of Grant Wood's most famous painting. (Realism, midwest)
What is "American Gothic?"
Also known as "block printing," first you carve into a linoleum tile, then you roll the ink, then you stamp.
What is Linocut?
Drawing in a cartoon-like fashion, often with heavy black outlines.
What is Illustration?
Name the most dangerous planet in our solar system.
What is Venus?
(The surface is 740°F and its atmosphere is acidic and thick)
The 2d (two-dimensional) space inside where lines connect.
What is Shape?
The name of Georges Seurat's most famous painting.
What is "A Sunday Afternoon" OR "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"
A timed sketch where the focus is on outline and movement rather than detail or realism.
What is a figure study? (Think of our charcoal eyes)
A physical or visual boundary in an art piece where the sky separates from the land/water.
What is the Horizon Line?
This is the loudest animal in the world.
What is a Blue Whale?